The Dickinson press., 1887-07-09
HISTORY OF THE WEEK.
DAKOTA NEWS.

lleS HaNe Dccl NlclllnlIctt l;ltplN 10y {;
sharp jcwelry fakir.
Free mail delivery was begun at
Sioux Falls. being the first city in the
territory to get 1T.
\ letter from j. j. Hill states his
intention of extending IL branch OF
the Manitoba to Grutun.
Arthur Raymond languislleS i'm the
Sioux Falls JUL. charged with adult.
cry with Mrs. James bowman.
The Bankers. Mutual Relief .Asso.
citation is the latest insurance coln.
pany organized ut Aberdeen.
The 2-ycar-old hoy of L. G. Moses.
Mitchell. got hold of rat poison and
The La Mourc county commission.
crs are furnishing free strychnine to
settlers for the purpose of eNtermin-
ating gophers.
Ground has been broken for the
Grand Forks gas works, and it is OK.
pected to have that city lighted in
sixty days.
The marriage of Il SiNty-tolr years
old Indian to IL Norwegian woman of
forty-ninr is the latest notable socir-
ty event ut Milbmk.
The Day county commissioners
have instructed the auditor to pur-
chase six collins ito he kept for the
use of the county poor"
1t appears that Saturdays rain was
Very heavy ut Huron. covering not
only the Missouri valley proper hut
the lower James river valley.
The Tyncr Safety Spark Arrester
and Manufacturing company will
commence business ut Aberdeen and
employ from ten to thirty men.
Officers of the Milwaukee road were
at Canton. Blocking owe new yards
ut that place. 1t is thought Canton
will he made division headquarters.
Representatives of the Belle
Fourche cattle outfits report from
the Cheyenne river that they are find
ing more cattle than they can handle.
w. X. Weaver. very hopeful gen.
tleman has just started the Yankton
Tribune. making the seventh news
papers for that ome-newspaper town.
The house of John Holbrook. eight
miles northwest of Huron. Oh the 4th,
was struck by lightning. None of
the several persons in it were injured
seriously.
Near Devils Lake. on the com.
plaint of Il local attorney who hates
the Manitoba road, some of the rail-
road hands arrested for working
on Sunday.
Amos Miller. Il MAJ SO years of age
was arrested a few days agoat Water
town for committing IL rape on his
l%2-year-old stcp-daughtrr. The girl
is badly hurt, but will recover.
The shortage of Williams, the treas.
urer of Jerauld county, extends over
Il period of three years, but no one
knows what use he made of the mon
ey. He is supposed to be in Manitoba.
\ sensation was caused ut Mitchell
when the sheriff returned with Il horse
thief captured at Elk Point and the
culprit was discovered to be II son of
Charles Stocking. IL respected resident
of Mitchell.
\ Mrs. kellings left Deadwood for
Europe, recently, under an unlusky
star. Before she had reached Stur-
gis she lost her railroad ticket, and in
New York was robbed of $500 in
cash.
The South Dakota board of phar-
macy has just concluded a session at
Huron. -Four hundred applicants for
certificates were examined. and in
most cases the certificates were
granted.
Some of the w~ickedest of the cen
trail Dakota papers do say that Judge
Spencer opened the Flanlrcau court
with prayer and closed the Water.
town court with the remark: "Now
boys, come up and take sutllin."
AT Sioux City Florence Dunbar, a
young lady of 10. in attempting to
throw out of doors q five gallon can OF
gasoline, which was ignited, slipped
and fell, and the burning liquid was
poured over her. She was burned
alive,
The Mitchell Republican says the
"catch" in a recent raid on disreput
able houses in Huron was decidedly
embarrassing to several members OF
the chest circles" of the town, in
Guiding Il bank cashier and u pious
and prominent lawyer.
The Manitoba grade has now
reached Fort ASsiniboine. The work
is progressing much more rapidly
than was considered possible i'm the
spring and it is believed work on thu
Bismarck branch from Minot will be
gin early next month.
The fame of Major and Mayor Ed
wards has Travelled W. the sea. \
European paper remarks that il
America they always elect the heavi
est man for mayor, and that in Fargo
in the Province of Dakota, the mayo.
weighs 900 pounds,
General Traffic Manager Odds o
the Canadian Pacific has issued IL cir
cular to the effect that cattle shippel
from Canada to Dakota will be sub
ject to a quarantine of ninety days
also that inspection by an authorized
veterinary surgeon is necessary befor
cattle can be admitted to the territory
August Waggoner was shot and i'll
stantly killed on the LIST inst, nea
Grand Forks. Inv Charles Freeman
The men were cattle herders an
friends. Freeman was taking a sell
cooking revolver from his dinner ba
to show Waggoner when it was ace
dentally discharged, the bullet pass
ing into Waggoner's face just belo,
the eye.
A correspondent in the Rainy Butt
Sentinel speaks of apleasant time La
at "Gedelsle'' near Bismarck. "Gede
sic" is the pleasant summer home an
stock-farm Of Gerald Pierce, son 9
oy.Goyarno Iinrca ohOut five mile